Wed 01/Oct/2025 – 05:57 PM
The vicinity of the Ecsellados satellite contains complex organic particles, revealing that this Saturn’s ice satellite includes favorable conditions for a life outside the planet.
Scientists discover essential elements for the availability of life on one of Saturn’s satellites
According to the Sun’s website, a new study revealed that this small moon is invisible with the naked eye, a white ball of only 500 km, which is the sixth largest moon of Saturn and the eighteenth of the largest moon in the solar system, with a diameter of about 500 km 310 miles, that is, about the tenth of the diameter of Saturn.
And the scientists have always believed that it is very far from the sun, and therefore very cold, in a way that prevents it from being hiding forms of life, but the situation changed after the cassini probe, who was close to his near times during his mission to Saturn and his episodes between 2004 and 2017, demonstrated the presence of a vast ocean of salty water under a thick layer of ice.
The data collected continued to provide new evidence about the presence of the necessary elements for the emergence of life: from salts to methane through carbon dioxide, phosphorous, etc., in its southern pole, Cassini discovered hot springs that explode from cracks and throw in the air ice molecules smaller than sand grains, and some of these ice granules fall back to the moon, while another leaks into the space to join the ring About Saturn.
Scientists have identified many organic molecules there, including amino acids, which are essential elements of life, but these particles may have been present in the episode for hundreds of years, and have changed by intense cosmic radiation.
